Yakima Canutt

Yakima Canutt

Birthday: 1895-11-29

Place of Birth: Colfax, Washington, U.S.A.

Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Yakima Canutt (November 29, 1895 – May 24, 1986), also known as Yak Canutt, was an American rodeo rider, actor, stuntman and action director. Description above from the Wikipedia article Yakima Canutt, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia. ​

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Stagecoach
Stagecoach

A group of people traveling on a stagecoach find their journey complicated by the threat of Geronimo...

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Gone with the Wind
Gone with the Wind

The spoiled daughter of a Georgia plantation owner conducts a tumultuous romance with a cynical prof...

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Firebrand Jordan
Firebrand Jordan

'Firebrand' Jordan is a ranger sent into the high Sierras to assist the local Sheriff Ed Burns in ca...

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The Cheyenne Kid
The Cheyenne Kid

Buck Allen, The Cheyenne Kid, has been accused of holding up the payroll car of the Cody Dam Constru...

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Golden Saddles, Silver Spurs
Golden Saddles, Silver Spurs

This documentary traces the history of the B-Western from it's silent movie origins to its demise in...

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The Lucky Texan
The Lucky Texan

Jerry Mason, a young Texan, and Jake Benson, an old rancher, become partners and strike it rich with...

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The Riders of the Whistling Skull
The Riders of the Whistling Skull

When Professor Marsh disappears while searching for the lost city of Lukachukai, his daughter enlist...

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Dust Be My Destiny
Dust Be My Destiny

Embittered after serving time for a burglary he did not commit, Joe Bell is soon back in jail, on a ...

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The World's Greatest Stunts: A Tribute to Hollywood Stuntmen
The World's Greatest Stunts: A Tribute to Hollywood Stuntmen

A follow-up special to ABC's 1987 "The Ultimate Stuntman: A Tribute to Dar Robinson." The program in...

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West of the Divide
West of the Divide

Ted Hayden impersonates a wanted man and joins Gentry's gang only to learn later that Gentry was the...

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The Heart of a Texan
The Heart of a Texan

King Calhoun comes to the aid of "Ma" Jackson, who is fighting to regain control of the family ranch...

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The Desert Hawk
The Desert Hawk

A cowboy is falsely accused of killing the local sheriff. Fleeing the law, Wilson obtains a job on a...

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Riders of the Rockies
Riders of the Rockies

Tex and his pals join the Rangers to fight rustlers along the border. When Doc and Pee Wee get frame...

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Branded a Bandit
Branded a Bandit

A miner has struck it rich and gives some ore to cowhand Jess Dean to take to his granddaughter. But...

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The Star Packer
The Star Packer

John Travers and Yak, his faithful Indian sidekick, pick up where a murdered sheriff leaves off, and...

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Bad Man of Deadwood
Bad Man of Deadwood

Roy and Gabby fight bad guys to save the town of Deadwood....

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The Lightning Warrior
The Lightning Warrior

A Rin-Tin-Tin serial presented in 12 episodes. The mysterious Wolf Man is terrorizing settlers in a ...

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Westward Ho
Westward Ho

Ballard's trail jumpers attack the Wyatt Company wagon train, killing young John's parents and kidna...

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Winds of the Wasteland
Winds of the Wasteland

The arrival of the telegraph put Pony Express riders like John Blair and his pal Smoky out of work. ...

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Riders of Destiny
Riders of Destiny

James Kincaid controls the local water supply and plans to do away with the other ranchers. Governme...

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Wyoming Outlaw
Wyoming Outlaw

Will Parker has been destroyed by a local politician and now must steal to feed his family. He steal...

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The Night Riders
The Night Riders

Talbot uses a phony land grant to rule thirteen million acres, taxing everyone heavily and evicting ...

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The Dawn Rider
The Dawn Rider

When John Mason's father is killed, John is wounded. Attracted to his nurse Alice, a conflict arises...

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The Lawless Frontier
The Lawless Frontier

Tobin is after the bandit Zanti who killed his parents. He finds him just as Zanti is about to kill ...

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Sagebrush Trail
Sagebrush Trail

Imprisoned for a murder he did not commit, John Brant escapes and ends up out west where, after givi...

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Randy Rides Alone
Randy Rides Alone

Bandits lead by Matt the Mute enter a bar and kill multiple people. Randy Bowers comes to town and i...

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Rocky Mountain
Rocky Mountain

A Confederate troop, led by Captain Lafe Barstow, is prowling the far ranges of California and Nevad...

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The Secret of Treasure Island
The Secret of Treasure Island

A variety of people are searching for a long-hidden treasure somewhere on an island. Chapters: 1. ...

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'Neath the Arizona Skies
'Neath the Arizona Skies

Chris Morrell, the guardian of half-Indian girl Nina, is helping her find her missing white father. ...

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Blue Steel
Blue Steel

When Sheriff Jake sees a man at the safe and then finds the payroll gone, he trails him. Just as he ...

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The Last Frontier
The Last Frontier

A frontier newspaper editor Kirby battles outlaw Tiger Morris who is causing indian uprisings to dri...

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Trouble in Texas
Trouble in Texas

Rodeo stars are being killed with poisoned needles, and Tex Ritter is next on the list....

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Ben-Hur: The Making of an Epic
Ben-Hur: The Making of an Epic

The story of how the classic epic "Ben-Hur" was made....

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Bandits of the Badlands
Bandits of the Badlands

A re-edited, digitally colourised and re-scored version of vintage black and white Western 'Blue Ste...

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The Shadow Gang
The Shadow Gang

A re-edited, digitally colourised and re-scored version of vintage black and white Western 'The Star...

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Avenging Angel
Avenging Angel

A re-edited, digitally colourised and re-scored version of vintage black and white Western 'The Dawn...

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Next Of Kin
Next Of Kin

A re-edited, digitally colourised and re-scored version of vintage black and white Western 'West of ...

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The Vanishing West
The Vanishing West

A boy's father is an unjustly accused fugitive, and the boy's scheming uncle plots to become the you...

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Spy Smasher Returns
Spy Smasher Returns

Edited version of the 1942 Republic serial "Spy Smasher," cut down to one hour and sold for TV relea...

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Spy Smasher
Spy Smasher

Prior to the United States' involvement in World War II, the masked vigilante Spy Smasher fights Naz...

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The Vanishing Legion
The Vanishing Legion

A mysterious master criminal known as The Voice plots with his gang to sabotage the Milesburg Oil Co...

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The Galloping Ghost
The Galloping Ghost

A gambling ring run out of the Mogul Taxi company is intent on fixing college football games. Footba...

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The Ranger and the Lady
The Ranger and the Lady

While Sam Houston in in the nation's capital trying to get Texas into the Union, his aide is trying ...

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Two-Fisted Sheriff
Two-Fisted Sheriff

A heroic lawman rescues Midge Blair from a runaway stage. Returning to town, Jerry is assigned to s...

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The Lonely Trail
The Lonely Trail

Though he fought for the North in the Civil War, John is asked by the Governor of Texas to get rid o...

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Branded a Coward
Branded a Coward

Safely from behind some shrubbery, Johnny Hume, a boy of 6 or 7, witnesses the slaughter of his moth...

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Rough Riding Ranger
Rough Riding Ranger

Hanson is using Bobby's carrier pigeons to receive messages. His man Slim shoots them down before th...

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The Iron Rider
The Iron Rider

After he loses his money and horse in a poker game, Yak learns he was cheated. But then he learns th...

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Rex the Devil Horse
Rex the Devil Horse

A boy's family is wiped out in an Indian massacre of a wagon train and he is captured. He befriends ...

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The Fighting Stallion
The Fighting Stallion

Yak arrives at the Gilmore ranch where rustling has occurred. Gilmore blames a wild horse when it is...

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Hell Hounds of the Plains
Hell Hounds of the Plains

Horses are being rustled by outlaws known as the Hell Hounds. When the Sheriff is killed, his Deputy...

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Wildcat Trooper
Wildcat Trooper

A Royal Canadian Mountie is assigned to bring in a criminal called "The Raven." The problem is that ...

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The Amazing Exploits of the Clutching Hand
The Amazing Exploits of the Clutching Hand

15-Chapter Serial about a scientist that discovers a formula for making synthetic gold and the peop...

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The Vigilantes Are Coming
The Vigilantes Are Coming

A masked hero called "The Eagle" leads California ranchers in a struggle against Russian Cossacks wh...

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Ten Laps to Go
Ten Laps to Go

Larry Evans, champion race car driver, is envied by his chief rival, Eddie DeSylva, who has more amb...

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The Black Coin
The Black Coin

Government agents try to thwart smugglers, while some sort of plot unfolds, about a hidden treasure ...

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Law and Lawless
Law and Lawless

Montana and sidekick Pancho hire on at the Lopez rancho to fight Daggett and his outlaw gang. But Lo...

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The Wolf Dog
The Wolf Dog

The story of a boy, a dog, and a man. The boy discovers he is heir to a shipping line, and travels...

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The Mysterious Pilot
The Mysterious Pilot

Jim Dorn endeavors to protect Jean McNain from a man she knows has committed a murder, Carter Snowde...

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Gauchos of El Dorado
Gauchos of El Dorado

It's "The Three Mesquiteers" again. Gaucho escapes from Braden's gang only to be shot by them. The M...

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Pals of the Range
Pals of the Range

A cowboy goes after cattle rustlers he finds changing brands....

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Son of the Border
Son of the Border

An honest rancher, after killing his best friend who's turned outlaw, takes his pal's orphaned young...

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The Hurricane Horseman
The Hurricane Horseman

Gomex has kidnapped Don Roberto and is holding him for ransom. Hoping to rescue Roberto and his daug...

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The Wyoming Whirlwind
The Wyoming Whirlwind

A mysterious bandit known as "The Wolf" steals the payroll from a country ranch....

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Pioneers of the West
Pioneers of the West

Pioneers of the West is a 1940 American Western "Three Mesquiteers" B-movie[1] directed by Lester Or...

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Battling with Buffalo Bill
Battling with Buffalo Bill

A western adventure serial in 12 episodes. Buffalo Bill battles gambler Jim Rodney who is trying to ...

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Lightning Bryce
Lightning Bryce

Two prospectors, one the father of Sky "Lightning" Bryce and the other the father of Kate Arnold, fi...

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Lightning Bryce
Lightning Bryce

Two prospectors, one the father of Sky "Lightning" Bryce and the other the father of Kate Arnold, fi...

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White Thunder
White Thunder

The son of a sheriff is caught in the eternal battle between sheepmen and cattle ranchers....

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Canyon Hawks
Canyon Hawks

Cattleman Benson finds Mildred and her brother George living in one of his cabins and their sheep ar...

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Westward Bound
Westward Bound

After Bob Lansing (Jay Wilsey as Buffalo Bill Jr). is involved in a nightclub scrape, where he meets...

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Scarlet River
Scarlet River

Unable to find open range near Hollywood, western actor Tom Baxter and his troop head to Judy Blake'...

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Daredevils of the Red Circle
Daredevils of the Red Circle

Escaped Prisoner 39013 impersonates the rich and influential Horace Granville, allowing him to creat...

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Custer's Last Stand
Custer's Last Stand

Kit Cardigan seeks the killer of his father...among other plot threads leading up to the famous hist...

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Cyclone of the Saddle
Cyclone of the Saddle

Sent by the Army, Andy Thomas poses as a renegade to find out who has been harassing the wagon train...

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Zorro's Fighting Legion
Zorro's Fighting Legion

The mysterious Don Del Oro ("Lord of Gold"), an idol of the Yaqui Indians, plans to take over the go...

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The Man from Hell
The Man from Hell

A cowboy recently released from prison is determined to go straight, but he winds up in a tough west...

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The Oregon Trail
The Oregon Trail

Army Captain takes a leave of absence to find out what happened to his missing father........

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Mysterious Doctor Satan
Mysterious Doctor Satan

A mad scientist named Dr. Satan plots to steal key pieces of technology to enable him to build an ar...

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The Showdown
The Showdown

Shadrach Jones, ex-Texas State Policeman, has the ruthless determination to find and kill the man wh...

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Bar-L Ranch
Bar-L Ranch

Bob Tyler has rustler trouble while driving a herd of cattle to the new owner, but he refuses to tur...

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Calling Philo Vance
Calling Philo Vance

Philo is in Vienna working for the US Government to see if Archer Coe is selling aircraft designs to...

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The Devil Horse
The Devil Horse

Bob Norton, seeking his brother's killer, tangles with outlaws, wild horses, and a "wild" boy....

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The Bold Caballero
The Bold Caballero

The Commandant is making life rough for the colonials in Spanish California. While trying to help, Z...

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Heart of the Rockies
Heart of the Rockies

Cattle are being routinely stolen from a local ranch, and suspicion centers on a local mountain fami...

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The Telegraph Trail
The Telegraph Trail

A greedy businessman-turned-renegade foments an Indian uprising against the coming telegraph to perp...

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Rio Bravo
Rio Bravo

A small-town sheriff in the American West enlists the help of a disabled man, a drunk, and a young g...

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Dark Command
Dark Command

When transplanted Texan Bob Seton arrives in Lawrence, Kansas he finds much to like about the place,...

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Wild Horse Canyon
Wild Horse Canyon

The foreman of a ranch owned by a pretty young girl captures a herd of wild horses, but the herd's l...

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Deadwood Dick
Deadwood Dick

Columbia's 11th serial and the first western serial that James W. Horne solo-directed....

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Prairie Thunder
Prairie Thunder

To increase profits for his shipping company, Lynch has goaded the Indians to attack both the telegr...

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Santa Fe Stampede
Santa Fe Stampede

The Mesquiteers capture a horse thief who escapes justice through a crooked judge. They gather signa...

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Claim Jumpers
Claim Jumpers

Claim jumpers originally released as Lucky Texan in 1934 by Monogram Pictures Corp...

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Trailin' West
Trailin' West

A singing secret agent tracks down renegades at President Lincoln's request....

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Heart of the Rio Grande
Heart of the Rio Grande

As foreman of a dude ranch, Gene has two problems. One is a guest, the spoiled daughter of a million...

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Storm Over Bengal
Storm Over Bengal

This being a Republic picture, it should come as no surprise that Storm Over Bengal was filmed in it...

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Captain Cowboy
Captain Cowboy

Story of a Cowboy who met challenges with action! He matched his fists against another man's diaboli...

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Cowboys from Texas
Cowboys from Texas

Cowboys from Texas is a 1939 American Western "Three Mesquiteers" B-movie directed by George Sherman...

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The Shadow of the Eagle
The Shadow of the Eagle

The Eagle uses sky writing to make threats against a corporation. Nathan Gregory owns a travelling f...

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Ghost Valley Raiders
Ghost Valley Raiders

Donald Barry, not yet Donald "Red" Barry, heads the cast of the Republic western Ghost Valley Raider...

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The Kansas Terrors
The Kansas Terrors

In Kansas Terrors, Stoney and his saddle pal Rusty take a job delivering horses to a flyspeck Caribb...

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The Painted Stallion
The Painted Stallion

American federal agent Clark Stuart is on assignment in Santa Fe to draw up a trade agreement with t...

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Prairie Pioneers
Prairie Pioneers

It is 1853 and settlers are pouring into California which means trouble for the old Spanish landowne...

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Frontier Vengeance
Frontier Vengeance

Jim Sanders (Don 'Red' Barry), young cowboy, returns to his hometown for a reunion with his boyhood ...

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The Great Train Robbery
The Great Train Robbery

Tom Logan is a railroad detective who takes it upon himself to halt the activities of his crooked br...

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Kansas Cyclone
Kansas Cyclone

The irrepressible Donald Barry is twice falsely accused of murder in this typical low-budget but wel...

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Hidden Valley Outlaws
Hidden Valley Outlaws

Lawyer Leland is using land rights to kick the ranchers off their land. When Wild Bill and Gabby arr...

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Nevada City
Nevada City

The conflict between a railroader and a stage line owner is being aggravated by bad guys who are sab...

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King of the Cowboys
King of the Cowboys

Roy Rogers, Smiley Burnette and the Sons of the Pioneers go undercover to help Texas Governor Russel...

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Song of Texas
Song of Texas

A man of no worth brags to his daughter back East that he is rich and owns a big ranch. When she dec...

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Riders of the Rio Grande
Riders of the Rio Grande

A banker struggles to keep his bank solvent and his town from going bankrupt after the bank is robbe...

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Calling Wild Bill Elliott
Calling Wild Bill Elliott

When territorial governor Steven Nichols (Herbert Heyes) terrorizes the population with violence and...

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The Hurricane Express
The Hurricane Express

The Wrecker wrecks trains on the L & R Railroad. One of his victims is Larry Baker's father. Baker w...

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Paradise Canyon
Paradise Canyon

John Wyatt is a government agent sent to smash a counterfeiting operation near the Mexican border. J...

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The Texan
The Texan

Outlaw Llano Kid poses as a rich Mexican widow's son and falls in love with a cousin....

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King of the Pecos
King of the Pecos

Profiteer Alexander Stiles lays claim to a million acres of range in the Pecos River country, but a ...

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The Man from Utah
The Man from Utah

The Marshal sends John Weston to a rodeo to see if he can find out who is killing the rodeo riders w...

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Outlaw Rule
Outlaw Rule

A rancher, frustrated with constant cattle rustling and the inability of the local sheriff to stop i...

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Fighting Thru
Fighting Thru

Cattlemen Protective Agent Reb Russell arrives to try and stop the cattle rustling. He gains a frien...

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Lawless Range
Lawless Range

John Middleton is investigating cattle rustling when he is captured and tossed into a cave with Emme...

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Coney Island
Coney Island

Set at the turn of the century, smooth talking con man Eddie Johnson weasels his way into a job at f...

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For Whom the Bell Tolls
For Whom the Bell Tolls

Spain in the 1930s is the place to be for a man of action like Robert Jordan. There is a civil war g...

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Desert Greed
Desert Greed

A deputy comes upon a young girl who has been fired and cheated out of her wages by her former emplo...

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Overland Stage Raiders
Overland Stage Raiders

After gold shipments from a mining town have been hijacked, the three Mesquiteers buy a plane to fly...

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Texas Tornado
Texas Tornado

Tex Robbins, a Texas Ranger, posing as "Wolf" Cassidy, a notorious Chicago gangster, works his way i...

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Carrying the Mail
Carrying the Mail

The owner of a stagecoach line is about to lose his mail contract after 30 years because he's been u...

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Pals of the West
Pals of the West

Sheriff Ed Dawson (Franklyn Farnum)asks Texas Rangers Wally Wallace (Hal Taliaferro) and Bill (Al Ho...

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Two Fisted Justice
Two Fisted Justice

It's good guy Carson and the Poncho Riders against bad guy Slavin and his gang....

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Fighting Texans
Fighting Texans

Randolph Graves, a high-pressure haberdashery salesman, is fired for arguing with a customer and get...

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Pueblo Terror
Pueblo Terror

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The Girl Who Dared
The Girl Who Dared

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Ghost Town Gold
Ghost Town Gold

The three Mesquiteers try to recover the gold stolen by a gang in its effort to ruin the banker/mayo...

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The Mystery Box
The Mystery Box

10 chapter adventure serial. [1] “The Fatal Box,” released 1 June 1925 (three reels); [2] “A Tragic ...

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Cowboy G-Man
Cowboy G-Man

Edited version of Paradise Canyon. An undercover agent for the government is sent to round up a gan...

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Rodeo Rocketeers
Rodeo Rocketeers

Edited version of The Man from Utah. In a horse-riding rodeo contest bad guys want John Weston to l...

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The Drifter
The Drifter

Edited version of Randy Rides Alone. Jailed for murders he didn't commit, Randy escapes only to stu...

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The Human Tornado
The Human Tornado

Jim Marlow's brother, Chet, who has come west to manage the family mining properties, cheats Pete Da...

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The Ridin' Comet
The Ridin' Comet

Slim Ranthers objects to the development of an irrigation project on his ranch and incurs the enmity...

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